Bill Text: WV HCR73 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Calling for an amendment that only the count of US Citizens during the US Census may be used for apportionment of Congressional representation
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-08 - To House Rules [HCR73 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2024-HCR73-Introduced.html
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 73
(By Delegates Howell and Coop-Gonzalez)
[Introduced February 8, 2024; referred to the Committee on Rules]
Requesting that the United States Congress call a convention to propose an amendment to the Constitution of the United States clarifying that the census referred to in Article 1, §2 of the Constitution of the United States means the counting only of citizens of the United States for apportionment of Congressional representation and apportionment of political representation of the subdivisions of the United States.
Whereas, There exists a controversy as to whether non-citizens of the United States should be counted in the ten year census with the effect of doing so would drastically change the representation of members in the House of Representatives; and
Whereas, The proper method to determine this issue is to amend the Constitution of the United States to clarify that Section 2 means counting only citizens. Otherwise, every ten years there may be only a political decision made of whom to count, depending on counting non-citizens to change the composition of the House of Representatives; therefore
Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the United States Congress call a convention to propose an amendment to the Constitution of the United States clarifying that the census referred to in Article 1, §2 of the Constitution of the United States means the counting only of citizens of the United States; and be it
Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the House forward a certified copy of this resolution to the President of the United States Senate and the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
